Dollywaggon Pike seen from Deepdale Hause
Dollywaggon Pike
Dollywaggon Pike sits at the southern terminus of the main Helvellyn ridge, acting as the final high fortress before the high ground drops away toward Grisedale Pass. In common with the rest of this mighty range, the fell possesses a highly defined double personality. The wide western flank, rolling gently down toward the highway at Dunmail Raise, is known as Willie Wife Moor—a curious title whose origin remains completely lost to antiquity. The eastern side, by contrast, is a spectacular, chaotic playground of sheer rock and broken stone.
To the northeast, tucked directly beneath the sub-summit of High Crag, lies Ruthwaite Cove. This impressive glacial corrie is hemmed in on three sides by towering crags and now hosts Ruthwaite Lodge, a stone climbing hut maintained for mountaineers. Just south lies a second major hollow, Cock Cove, which is flanked by the imposing walls of Falcon Crag and the deeply gullied face of Tarn Crag. Dividing these two wild coves, Dollywaggon Pike thrusts out a fine, narrow rock ridge simply known as The Tongue.
The summit cairn overlooking Grisedale and St. Sunday Crag
The actual summit is a small, neat grassy rise situated directly at the birth point of The Tongue. It is marked by a modest stone cairn, though a noticeably larger, more substantial cairn sits a few yards further west. Because of its positioning at the tail-end of the massif, the panoramic views from the top are exceptionally vast, with the immediate eastern foreground offering a truly magnificent perspective over the deep trough of Grisedale and the elegant, sweeping profile of St. Sunday Crag across the valley.
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